I used to work in the wooden boat trade, every shop and school I was at, used West System.

If you haven't already, check out your local blacksmith group.

Thanks for the mention, but not sure I should be placed along James Austin. He's a skill axe maker, I'm just some guy that plays at making them in my...

Yes, feel free to use it. Glad you like it.

It this case, I'm starting with 10 inches of 1 1/4 by 1/4. Enough for a nice sized hawk, but not too much. I'll be offering 1" by 3/16 for those tha...

True, but he was looking for larger sizes, I did the 3/4 and 6 sizes for price comparison.

I was wrong, it's not half, the savings are a lot more. 12 feet of 3/4 inch round is costing me local under $25, at Speedy metals, it's over �...

Have you asked your local steel distributors? That's where I get mine and for less then half the price of the on-line sources. Should add, can o...

Not sure were I'm going with the bladesmithing, but I greatly enjoy forging tools for myself. I've also made the Japanese style garden knifes for the...

You're welcome, it was fun to do.

Point of confusion for me, I thought MAPP had been discontinued and replaced with MAP-Pro. And is there a difference?

You can make a tooling stand. In it's simplest form, it just a steel pipe with legs or the other end buried in the ground. Make a bolster plate to f...